A New Year’s List of Trump’s Accomplishments

It’s time once again for an end of year review of what President Trump has accomplished since taking office!  This year’s list is a lot bigger than 2018, so enjoy!  Happy 2020 to all our readers!

  • Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
  • More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
  • We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
  • Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
  • Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
  • New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
  • Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
  • African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
  • Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
  • Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
  • Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
  • Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
  • Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
  • Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
  • Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
  • The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
  • 95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
  • Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
  • Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
  • As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
  • Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
  • Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
  • Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
  • Record number of regulations eliminated.
  • Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
  • Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
  • My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
  • Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
  • We reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
  • Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
  • Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
  • We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
  • Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
  • Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
  • United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
  • Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
  • Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
  • Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
  • NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
  • Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
  • Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
  • Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
  • Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
  • Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
  • Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
  • Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
  • Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
  • Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
  • Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
  • Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
  • Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
  • Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
  • Passing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that will bring relief and business to the American farmer.
  • Passing 12 weeks of paid family leave for federal workers. An initiative that Ivanka Trump has been advocating for since Day One. And on a personal level, one that NO LESS than 10 career HUD employees thanked me for in private – with some even admitting they may vote for him in 2020. 
  • Reaching an historic trade deal with China that lifts the unfair tariff burden off the American tax-payer that the LAST THREE PRESIDENTS had no problem paying for DECADES.
  • Getting Space Force
  • Requiring Hospitals to publicly disclose the costs charged and paid by ALL insurance companies to ensure transparency and fair competition.
  • Making animal cruelty a FEDERAL FELONY, praised by the American Humane Society as a bill they’ve been trying to pass for DECADES
  • Forcing delinquent foreign countries to contribute an additional $530 BILLION to NATO so that Americans are no longer bearing the global burden
  • Expanding federal civil rights protections against anti-Semitism, which was duly praised by the President of the Anti-Defamation League

Originally Compiled By Mark Simone

By |2019-12-24T03:13:53+00:00December 24th, 2019|Politics|0 Comments

How Old Am I? – An Introspective on Society in Our Lifetimes

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events.  He asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.

The Grandfather replied, “Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:

Television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, frisbees, and the pill.

There were NO credit cards, laser beams, or, ball-point pens.

Man had not invented pantyhose, air conditioners, dishwashers, clothes dryers, microwave ovens, cell phones, or fax machines.

The clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air, and space travel was only in Flash Gordon books.

Your Grandmother and I got married first,… and then lived together. Every family had a father and a mother.

Until I was 25, I called every woman older than me, “ma’am”. And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every
man with a title, “Sir”.

We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers,
and group therapy.

Our lives were governed by the Bible, good judgment, and common sense. We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong, and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.

Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege…

We thought fast food was eating half a biscuit while running to
catch the school bus.

Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.

Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze
started.

Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends – not purchasing condominiums.

We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.

We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President’s speeches on our radios. And I don’t ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey.

If you saw anything with ‘Made in Japan’ on it, it was junk.

The term ‘making out’ referred to how you did on your school exam….

Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, and instant coffee were unheard of.

We had 5 & 10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents. Or there was penny candy that actually cost a penny. Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all a nickel. And if you didn’t want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.

You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, …. but who could afford one? Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.

In my day:

  • “grass” was mowed,
  • “coke” was a cold drink
  • “pot” was something your mother cooked in
  • “rock music” was your grandmother’s lullaby
  • “Aids” were helpers in the Principal’s office
  • “chip” meant a piece of wood
  • “hardware” was found in a hardware store and “software” wasn’t even a word.

And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.

How old do you think I am?

I bet you have a very old man in mind…well, you are in for a shock!

Read on to see — pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the
same time. Are you ready?????

This man would be 72 years old today.
72 years ago was 1947.

THINK ABOUT HOW FAR OFF CENTER WE HAVE BECOME – MORALLY AT LEAST.

By |2019-12-24T02:55:21+00:00December 24th, 2019|Crime and Prevention, Culture Wars, Economics, History|0 Comments

Things to Process Before the 2020 Election

Here are some interesting points to think about prior to 2020, especially to my friends on the fence, like moderate Democrats, Libertarians and Independents and the never Trump Republicans and those thinking of “walking away” from the Democratic party.

  • Women are upset at Trump’s naughty words — they also bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray.
  • Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders. It seems women’s rights only matter if those women are liberal.
  • No Border Walls. No voter ID laws. Did you figure it out yet? But wait… there’s more.
  • Chelsea Clinton got out of college and got a job at NBC that paid $900,000 per year Her mom flies around the country speaking out about white privilege.
  • And just like that, they went from being against foreign interference in our elections to allowing non-citizens to vote in our elections.
  • President Trump’s wall costs less than the Obamacare website. Let that sink in, America.
  • We are one election away from open borders, socialism, gun confiscation, and full-term abortion nationally. We are fighting evil.
  • They sent more troops and armament to arrest Roger Stone than they sent to defend Benghazi.
  • 60 years ago, Venezuela was 4th on the world economic freedom index. Today, they are 179th and their citizens are dying of starvation. In only 10 years, Venezuela was destroyed by democratic socialism.
  • Russia donated $0.00 to the Trump campaign. Russia donated $145,600,000 to the Clinton Foundation. But Trump was the one investigated!
  • Nancy Pelosi invited illegal aliens to the State of the Union President Trump Invited victims of illegal aliens to the State of the Union. Let that sink in.
  • A socialist is basically a communist who doesn’t have the power to take everything from their citizens at gunpoint .. Yet!
  • How do you walk 3000 miles across Mexico without food or support and show up at our border 100 pounds overweight and with a cellphone?
  • Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wants to ban cars, ban planes, give out universal income and thinks socialism works. She calls Donald Trump crazy.
  • Bill Clinton paid $850,000 to Paula Jones To get her to go away. I don’t remember the FBI raiding his lawyer’s office.
  • I wake up every day and I am grateful that Hillary Clinton is not the president of the United States of America.
  • The same media that told me Hillary Clinton had a 95% chance of winning now tells me Trump’s approval ratings are low.
  • “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”— Margaret Thatcher
  • Maxine Waters opposes voter ID laws; She thinks that they are racist. You need to have a photo ID to attend her town hall meetings.

President Trump said — “They’re not after me. They’re after you. I’m just in their way.”
Read that again.

Pass along these truths!

By |2019-12-24T02:40:01+00:00December 24th, 2019|Democratic Candidates, Economics, International|0 Comments

Best of 2019: 319 Square Miles!

Earlier this year the newly convened Democratic controlled House of Representatives introduced a bill to eliminate the electoral college. It seems that, since they couldn’t win the last presidential election under the rules that have existed for almost 250 years, they want to change the rules. Below is an excellent explanation on why this is a very bad idea.

Subject: 319 Square Miles

In their infinite wisdom, the United States’ Founders created the Electoral College to ensure the STATES were fairly represented. Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the nation?

  • There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
  • Trump won 3,084 of them.
  • Clinton won 57.
  • There are 62 counties in New York State.
  • Trump won 46 of them.
  • Clinton won 16.
Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes. In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond (or Staten Island) & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond) Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
      • These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.
      • The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles.

Then you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.

Large, densely populated cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc.) DO NOT and SHOULD NOT speak for the rest of our country!
By |2019-12-24T03:31:50+00:00December 24th, 2019|2016, Clinton, Trump|0 Comments

Who Really Died At Auschwitz? (A 75 year Remembrance)

Following is a copy of an art Vilar written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper.

It doesn’t take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe – and possibly to the rest of the world.I walked down the streets in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz .   We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world. The contribution of these people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride. They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it ‘offends’ the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving in to it.

It is now approximately seventy years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, twenty million Russians, ten million Christians, and nineteen-hundred Catholic priests who were ‘murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated. Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be ‘a myth,’ it is imperative to make sure the world “never forgets.”

By |2019-07-19T17:15:22+00:00July 19th, 2019|History|0 Comments

Update from Rep. Josh Gottheimer on Charity Tax Credits

Dear Mr. [redacted]:

As your Representative, I have made it my priority to lower taxes for North Jersey families. In New Jersey, we pay some of the highest taxes in the nation. To make matters worse, the Tax Hike Bill kicked us in the teeth by gutting the State and Local Tax Deduction (SALT), driving taxes up for many in our District by seven percent and, according to Moody’s, sending our state’s property values down by 7.4 percent.

I have been working with local elected officials in New Jersey to fight back by enabling towns and cities to establish charitable funds to pay for everything from public safety to education. Taxpayers who contribute would receive tax credits applied toward their property-tax bills.

But last month, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a massively overreaching rule that would prohibit states like New Jersey from allowing municipalities to use these charitable funds to offer real tax relief to residents.

That’s why I introduced bipartisan legislation with Representative Peter King of New York to fully repeal the Treasury Department’s prejudicial and politically motivated rule. Simply put, Congress didn’t give the IRS permission to interpret the tax law as they see fit. It’s incredibly clear that this rule is aimed at whacking blue states like New Jersey and all of our hardworking, taxpaying families, and we cannot allow them to target us in this manner.

I have heard from cities and towns across the Fifth District that this Treasury regulatory overreach is stopping them from being able to provide actual tax relief for their residents. My resolution aims to provide much needed certainty and, once and for all, give people the tax cuts they need and deserve. Our families and our businesses simply can’t afford tax increases at any level.

As your Representative, my top priority is lowering taxes for Fifth District residents. If you’d like to contact me about this or any other issue, please email me at https://gottheimer.house.gov/contact/. If you would like to receive regular updates from me, please visit https://gottheimer.house.gov/forms/emailsignup/ where you can sign up for my e-newsletter.

Yours,

Josh

By |2019-07-19T17:22:10+00:00July 19th, 2019|Taxes|0 Comments
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